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Comparison of diffusion-controlled and carrier-mediated solute fluxes across bacterial plasma membranes

Range	Table - link
Organism	bacteria
Reference	Reinhard Krämer, Analysis and modeling of substrate uptake and product release by prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, Metabolic Engineering Advances in Biochemical Engineering/Biotechnology Volume 54, 1996, pp 31-74 p.40 table 2PubMed ID8623614
Comments	"The transfer rates of diffusion-controlled processes are given in Table 2 for some relevant molecules. These examples demonstrate that, for most (hydrophilic) molecules, passive diffusion across the cytoplasmic membrane is low and not of physiological or biotechnological relevance."
Entered by	Uri M
ID	109655